Also known as xiaolongbao, these little dumplings are filled with juicy broth, crab and pork meat. They are probably my favourite type of dumplings and once you learn to make these at home, you won't be able to stop.
Category
Dinner
Servings
4-6
Prep time
6 hours
Cook time
9 minutes
Also known as xiaolongbao, these little dumplings are filled with juicy broth, crab and pork meat. They are probably my favourite type of dumplings and once you learn to make these at home, you won't be able to stop.
Ingredients
- 2 pig trotters
- 2kg pork bones
- 2kg chicken wings
- 2 spring onions whites
- thumb size piece ginger, sliced
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 500g pork mince
- 170g picked crab meat
- 1 spring onion, finely diced
- 0.5 tsp MSG
- 0.5 tsp ground white pepper
- 0.5 tsp corn flour
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tbsp Chinese cooking wine
- 1.5 tbsp soy sauce
- 0.5 tsp sesame oil
- 1 cup of diced pork soup
- 1 packet of round dumpling wrappers
Soup
Dumplings
Directions
Soup
To make the soup, add the pig trotters and pork bones to a pot. Cover with water and bring to a simmer. After 10 minutes, drain and rinse the bones before placing them back into a pot and covering them with water again. Bring back to a low simmer for 2.5 hours and then add the ginger and spring onions.
- Then in a separate pot, add the chicken wings, cover with water and bring to a simmer for 10 minutes. Drain and rinse the chicken wings, then add them to the larger pot with the pork bones.
- Simmer this lightly for another 3 hours.
- Once it's cooked, pass it through a fine sieve and pour it into an oven tray, season with the soy sauce and let it cool in the fridge overnight.
Dumplings
Add all the ingredients for the dumplings, apart from the jellied soup, to a bowl and mix well.
- Once mixed, lightly store in the diced jelly soup.
- Roll the dumplings and then steam over boiling water for 9 minutes.
